8-Coil Shakti Headset With Software For Windows

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Shakti Neural technology can be used to get
into altered states of consciousness, though the standard
configurations
are geared to produce one specific kind - the more introspective,
calmer, detached kind. These are often called 'theta' states
because the brain produces theta-rythm when these states
of conscoiusness are going on. Trance and silent forms
of meditation are associated with theta activity.

Although the best known modality for psychic
is 'seeing', which implies visual perception, there
are other. Some
psychics have their perceptions appearing through their
own thoughts. Others have a sensation appear in their
bodies. Other have a simple sense of 'knowing' that
doesn't form into clear perceptions but that still
allow them to understand the answer to their inquiry.

It's been laboratory
tested and found to elicit psychic perceptions, These include
relaxation, meditation, trance, hypnosis, and the Athlete's
state of
being "in the zone". In principle,

Meditation Enhancement, Out
Of Body Experiences, Visions, Altered States, Lucid
dreaming, visual enhancements, and other effects
have been reported from this technology.

Allan Snyder claims that he can turn on
a person's inner Rain Man, and then turn it off again,
with the flick of a switch. All it takes is a strange set
of electrodes - and a radical new theory of autism, genius
and the
human brain.

LAWRENCE OSBORNE

Allan Snyder says that "switching off" parts
of the brain can help people tap into hidden genius. "What
I'm looking at right now is creating a real thinking cap." Graham
Phillips reports on amazing Australian research into developing
scientific tools that can enhance non-conscious problem-solving.

The work is based on the study of "savant syndrome".
People with severe mental disorders who can exhibit extraordinary
talents in the field of art, music or mathematics. Professor
Allan Snyder believes that savant type abilities "reside
equally in all of us." He believes we all have access
to this fundamental mechanism but with our higher order
cognitive processing we are unable to tap into it.

Researchers have found that healthy volunteers showed
similar talents when parts of their brains were briefly "switched
off", some volunteers were capable of "savant" abilities.

As Phillips reports, Snyder's 'thinking cap' actually
exists - when placed on the wearer's head, it is able to
temporarily switch off the brain, and clear the way to
the hidden talents that could lie inside. Will it work
for our intrepid reporter?

Ingo Swann, a remote viewer once employed by government
agencies who are not specifically named in the research
paper, participated in his series of neurological tests
with Dr. Michael Persinger, and the other authors of
this paper. Two experiments were done with remote viewing.
The first experiment was done by putting 16 pictures
and four objects into manilla envelopes. They were
selected by a the person knew it never met Ingo Swann
and who had no other role in the experiment. They were
told to select pictures with strong emotional themes.
After the objects and pictures of been selected they
were divided into groups of six. Several rooms away,
a researcher took out one of the envelopes and put
it on a table. He oriented the envelope the way Ingo
Swann had asked, and the research paper even gives
the size of the table (8,100 cm).

Ingo Swann was told when a picture was on the table,
and he would endeavor to view it remotely. Sitting
with a sketch pad, he would draw the images that
came to him, and then he would ask for another picture.

The other experiment consisted of Ingo Swann
remote viewing a pair of the researchers who had
been given
two pictures randomly selected from a group of nine,
all of which depicted places in and around the city
where the research took place. Once they had arrived
at two locations, the researchers "observed" the
place for 15 minutes.

As in the first experiment, Ingo Swann made drawings
as he remotely viewed the two researchers. A group
of a 44 undergraduate students, who knew nothing
about the experiment, were given the job of rating
the similarities between the drawings and the pictures
of the places as well as the drawings of the pictures
and objects - the ones in the manilla envelopes.
They also rated the similarity between the content
of Swann's drawings and photographs of the places
the researchers had visited. In addition, they also
rated the similarities between the emotional connotations
of the words Ingo Swann used, and the mood of the
photos. A picture of a tornado, for example could
be called dark and threatening, but not warm and
cuddly.

While this was going on, he also received neural
stimulation using the "octopus", as well
as EEG monitoring

What if you could
become a savant for a few minutes? Australian National
University neuroscientist Allan Snyder says
you can. Snyder induced instantaneous "jelly-bean
counting" skills in normal people using transcranial
magnetic stimulation. He used the powerful magnetic pulses
to zap the brains of 12 volunteers, disrupting activity
in the left anterior frontal lobe, an area where damage
is known to cause sudden savant syndrome. For an hour
or so after treatment, 10 of the volunteers were twice
as accurate in guessing at a glance the number of dots
flashed on a computer screen. "This is an extraordinarily
good result—I'm amazed it came out so well," Snyder
says.

When Snyder used the same technique three years ago to
induce episodes of savantlike artistic ability in ordinary
people, skeptics objected to his claims, saying that artistic
abilities were too subjective to judge. But numbers don't
lie, says Eric Wassermann of the National Institute of
Neurological Disorders and Stroke. "There's nothing
that looks bogus about it."

ALTERNATING SIGNAL
(8-COIL) Headset

The 8-coil
Headset is designed to create intense altered states
of consciousness.

Over the Temporal Lobes

Temporal-frontal area

The KOREN HELMET rotates the signals between
coils.

The 8-coil Shakti works in a similar way,
using the two stereo channels in your sound
card.

The 8-COIL Shakti For Windows headset alternates
the signals between two sets of coils to approximate
the effects of rotation.

The alternating signal headsets have eight
coils to make sure you are able to apply the
signal to both sides of your head. This is
a safety feature, and cannot be dispensed with.

Eight coils, applied over both sides,
maximize your chances for a intense spiritual
experience using Shakti For Windows.

"For several years, Persinger has been using
a
technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation
to induce all sorts of surreal experiences in
ordinary people (New Scientist, 19 November
1994, p 29). Through trial and error and a bit
of educated guesswork, he's found that a weak
magnetic field--1 microtesla, which is roughly
that generated by a computer monitor--rotating
anticlockwise in a complex pattern about the
temporal lobes will cause four out of five people
to feel a spectral presence in the room with them."

"Dr Persinger has designed a helmet that
produces
a very weak rotating magnetic field of between ten
nanotesla and one microtesla over the temporal
lobes of the brain. This is placed on the subject's
head and they are placed in a quiet chamber
while blindfolded. So that there is no risk of
'suggestion', the only information that the subjects
are given is that they are going in for a relaxation
experiment. Neither the subject nor the experimenter
carrying out the test has any idea of the true purpose
of the experiment. In addition to this, the experiment
is also run with the field switched both off and on.
This procedure Dr Persinger claims will induce an
experience in over 80% of test subjects."

The power of
moving magnetic signals is illustrated in one study where
3 volunteers were given LSD and were given sessions with
the Koren Helmet. When the coils were moving, the subjects
saw "blobs of white, purplish, or greenish-yellow
lights ". When the magnets (ordinary horseshoe magnets,
not the coils or signals used in Shakti For Windows) weren't
moving, the subjects didn't see these lights. And those
were common magnets, not much different from the kind you
might have on your refrigerator................

The God Helmet is a popular name given to
a laboratory apparatus more correctly called the "Koren
Helmet", after Stanley Koren of Laurentian University's
Neuroscience Department, who built it according to specifications
provided by Dr. M.A. Persinger, it's director.

"I asked Dr. Persinger
how many people had seen God using the Koren Helmet,
and this is what he said
in
reply:

"The problem is producing an environment
in which people will report what they experience
without
anticipating ridicule on the one hand and not encouraging
this type of report (demand characteristics) on the
other.

Thus far, about 20 or so people have reported
feeling the presence of Christ or even seeing him
in the
chamber (The acoustic chamber where the experimental
sessions took place). Most of these people used Christ
and God interchangeably. Most of these individuals
were older (30 years or more) and religious (Roman
Catholic). One male, age about 35 years old (alleged
atheist but early childhood RC (Roman Catholic) training),
saw a clear apparition (shoulders and head) of Christ
staring him in the face. He was quite "shaken" by
the experience. I did not complete a follow-up re:
his change in behavior. Of course these are all reports.
What we did find with one world-class psychic who
experiences Christ as a component of his abilities
was we could experimentally increase or decrease
his numbers of his reported experiences by applying
the LTP pattern (derived from the hippocampus) over
the right hemisphere (without his awareness)."

Used as a research
tool to investigate the brain's role in religious and mystic
experiences, the Koren Helmet has
been given the name God Helmet. A few Journalists gave
it this name when they learned that some people had visions
of God while participating in Koren Helmet experiments.
The name has stuck, 80% of the subjects felt a presence
of some kind, but did not call it God. Of course, there
were probably
some subjects who experienced an appearance of God, but
were shy about saying they had seen God in a laboratory.
That kind of thing is not only intensely personal, but
can also get you ridiculed.

Meditation Enhancement, Out Of Body Experiences,
Visions, Altered States, Lucid dreaming, visual
enhancements, and other effects have been reported
from this technology.

THE
8-COIL HEADSET - DESIGNED FOR INTENSE ALTERED STATES

With
the 8-Coil Shakti, you can activate your brain, one
part at a time. If you like the altered state a particular
session brings up, you can repeat it (with specific
schedules) often enough that your brain 'learns' to
access the effects on it's own. If you don't like the
effects of a particular session, don't repeat it.

God and the Brain - The Persinger 'God Helmet',
The Brain, and visions of God.
by Todd Murphy

This talk, called "God and the
Brain", is a discussion of the Persinger "God
Helmet" (actually the Koren Helmet) and the
8 Coil Shakti. It covers visions of God, Near-Death
Experiences,
and other themes in neurotheology, the field that
integrates neuroscience and spirituality. This
is the first of
six lectures on Spirituality and the Brain by Todd
Murphy, inventor of the 8 Coil Shakti and the Shiva
Neural Stimulation system, which duplicates the
procedures used in the God Helmet experiments.
He has been a
member of Laurentian University's Behavioral Neuroscience
research group, under the direction of Dr. M. A.
Persinger
since 1998.

Understanding Psychic Skills

There were a series of experiments, which we look
at on a page in the software that demonstrated the
accuracy of some psychic reports. On this page, we're
not going to ask if psychic skills are 'real'. We're
going to make the assumption that they are, knowing
that there are many who make the opposite assumption.

Now, using the tremendous power that a good assumption
confers on those who accept it, we can ask how psychic
skills work. There are several assumptions we have
to make in order to explain how psychic skills work.
In doing so, we go a bit beyond the scope of the
studies that inspired the Shiva neural stimulation
device.

Although the underlying mechanisms for all such
perceptions are very similar, different psychic skills
call for different explanations. Remote viewing and
telepathy involve perception in spite of spatial
distances, while precognition involves seeing things
in spite of temporal distance.

Let's look at remote viewing and telepathy first.

The best way to start is to define the words.
Telepathy is "... a significant correlation between specific
components of the behavior of a stimulus person and
of a response person" (Persinger).

Precognition is "Awareness of events which
occur after their perception" (Author).

These aren't absolute definitions. They're only
intended to give us working definitions for this
one article. There are many psychics would would
offer different definitions, and there are other
researchers who have their own way of seeing things.
These are taken from some of the research publications
describing the technology Shiva Neural Stimulation
is based on.

Your brain produces electrical signals as
it operates. Shakti For Windows applies magnetic
signals to your head that mimic these signals. Because
some brain structures have known 'signatures', they
can be 'targeted' by applying their signature signals.
EEG (electroencephalography) reads the electrical
activity from the brain, and it's 'traces' are the
original source for most of the signals used in Shakti
For Windows.

Most Shakti signals
are derived from EEG traces

The target structures respond to these signals
and, to a lesser extent, other structures connected to
it.
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.Shakti For Windows has session designs to facilitate: Out-of-body experiences
~ Lucid Dreaming ~ Bliss and other positive feelings ~ Remote viewing ~ And
More.

Each brain is different,
and there are many ways to use SHAKTI For Windows.
Your experiences will depend on what you're prone to,
and the choices you make in using it.

Not everyone is equally
sensitive to this kind of mind-machine, but the Shakti
project yielded observations that can help slow starters
get going.

With the 8-Coil Shakti, you can activate
your brain, one part at a time. If you like the altered
state
a particular session brings up, you can repeat it (with
specific schedules) often enough that your brain 'learns'
to access the effects on it's own. If you don't like
the effects of a particular session, don't repeat it.

One of the ways this technology has
been effective is as a meditation enhancement. Meditation
can be improved when sessions are done so that they end
about an hour beforehand. The same thing has been reported
by people who are using other mind-machines after their
Shakti sessions. Using other mind machines, or doing
meditation during Shakti sessions doesn't work as well.
The 8-coil Shakti can induce induce spiritual experiences
and transformation for many people when used according
to instructions. It's also a powerful tool for consciousness
exploration.

The 8-Coil Shakti represents a new
generation of a technology developed at Laurentian University's
Behavioral Neurosciences Program, under the direction
of Dr. Michael A. Persinger. In laboratory settings,
this class of technology had succeeded in inducing experiences
that people call religious, spiritual, or mystical.

This refers to deep states of relaxation as well as 'visions', enhancements
in dreaming, mood elevations, and a whole range of 'special' experiences.

HOW
DOES THE 8-COIL SHAKTI WORK?

Shakti
(and it's predecessors) rely on a simple idea. It started
with two EEG (electroencephalograph) signals taken from
parts of the brain that are known to be involved in religious
experiences (the amygdala and the hippocampus). These
two structures turn out to be where the seizures begin
in epileptics who had blissful or visionary seizures
(not a common type of seizure, but it does exist). In
addition to these two sigals, several others have been
added, including one from the caudate nucleus (a structure
that relaxes on one side and energizes on the other).
Others are derived from frequencies or mixes of frequencies
that appear when EEG signals are 'averaged'.

These EEG signals were converted into data
files, and eventually into audio files, which play
out through a sound card.

Instead of being played through speakers
or headphones, they are 'played' through a set
of magnetic coils, which produces magnetic signals
instead of sounds.

Their magnetic signals 'match' the electrical
signals from the structures we work with. As a
Shakti session proceeds, these structures become
more and more active.

For most people, 10 minutes later, they start to feel something.
Half an hour into the session, that feeling becomes stronger,
and it begins to shape the person's experience, if the session
is successful. Sensory deprivation helps elicit effects during
the session.

A Few Lab Reports:

Examples of dialog (from audiotape) from subjects
participating in these experiments. Source

Subject 1 A Middle-aged professional journalist. Chirp signal
applied over the right side.

"I see shadows along my left
side . . . there is someone touching my left side
. . . there is a
flash of light . . . a tunnel experience. I feel
as if I am shrinking and expanding. There is a tingling
inside of my thigh . . . sexual excitement. There's
a cold rush (subject shivered; EEG showed paroxysmal
activity). I see a visual... it's an apparition."

Subject 2 A 21-year-old female with history of diabetes.
Amygdala signal applied over both sides

"I felt a presence behind
me and then along the left side. When I tried to
focus on its position,
the presence moved. Every time I tried to sense where
it was, it moved around. When it moved to the right
side, I experienced a deep sense of security like
I had not experienced before. I started to cry when
I felt
it slowly fade away" (the field parameters had
been changed).

Subject 3
A 30-year-old woman. Chirp signal applied over the
right side

"I feel detached from my body.
I am floating up . . . there is a kind of vibration
moving through
my sternum . . . there are odd lights or faces along
my left side. My body is becoming very hot. . . .
tingling sensations in my chest and stomach . . .
now both arms. There is something feeling my ovaries.
I can
feel my left foot jerk. I feel there is someone in
the room behind me."

Subject 4 A 25-year-old man, childhood history
of three "mild" head
injuries. Chirp signal applied over both sides

"I feel as if there was a
bright white light in front of me. I saw a black
spot that became a
kind of funnel . . . no tunnel that I felt drawn
into. I felt moving, like spinning forward through
it. I began to feel the presence of people, but I
could not see them; they were along my sides. They
were colorless, grey-looking. I know I was in the
chamber but it was very real. I suddenly felt intense
fear and felt ice cold."

In fact, it's crucial for intense sessions. A large portion
of the temporal lobe's ongoing activity is devoted to monitoring
ambient sounds. Silence is an important part of any sessions
intended to create powerful experiences. Above all, relax
during your Shakti sessions. Expectation 'tasks' the frontal
lobes, and their activation can stand in the way of 'going
within'.

Sensory deprivation isn't needed for sessions designed with
lasting effects in mind.
Unlike the other versions of Shakti, the 8-Coil Shakti alternates
the signals beween two pairs of coils. It's more able to
induce the intense sessions demonstrated in television documentaries.
It uses additional principles, which you can learn about
HERE

One question that comes up often about the Koren Helmet
is whether it's possible to obtain one. The Koren Helmet
is found only in the laboratory where it was made, and
is not available to the public. However, a PC version
of the God Helmet, The Shakti Neural Stimulation System,
does exist.

Do not use if you do not understand English.
Do not use if you are less than 18 years of age.
If you are producing or own patent rights to any neural stimulation
technology, contact the software author for a trade license
before you order.

Some individuals have experienced headaches using this technology
- these have not been intense, and they have been relieved
using common headache remedies. These have associated with
the hippocampal signals. Change your signals if you experience
headaches following four sessions. Do not begin using Shakti
with the hippocampal signal if you are especially prone to
headaches. Other signals are available.

Software author reserves the right to reproduce any and all
reports, tech support e-mails, and other communications
subsequent to the software. Your name and e-mail address
will never be revealed.

Only use with Suggested Magnetic Coils - do not use it with
electric current.

SoftwareRequirements:
Windows 9x, NT, XP and above
Good Sound Card
Internet explorer V. 4 or later.
Read the End-User License agreement for important information
about your use of this software.
This software does not diagnose or treat medical disorders.